A Murder of Crows
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- whitestone
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A Murder of Crows
And other such terms for groups of animals and birds, you know "a gaggle/skein of geese"; "a parliament of owls". Usually these are known as collective nouns.
So what would or should be the collective noun for a group of bikepackers? Should there be a different term depending on whether they are on the bike. at a cafe, milling around, in the same way that "gaggle" is used for geese on the ground and "skein" for them in the air?
A whiff of bikepackers. A group of bikepackers at a cafe and being avoided by other customers.
A natter of bikepackers - a group standing around chatting
???
So what would or should be the collective noun for a group of bikepackers? Should there be a different term depending on whether they are on the bike. at a cafe, milling around, in the same way that "gaggle" is used for geese on the ground and "skein" for them in the air?
A whiff of bikepackers. A group of bikepackers at a cafe and being avoided by other customers.
A natter of bikepackers - a group standing around chatting
???
Better weight than wisdom, a traveller cannot carry
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A shower
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No need to speculate it's
Faff
faff
/fæf/
verb
1.
(Brit, informal) ( intransitive) often foll by about. to dither or fuss
2.
A group or collection of bikepackers
Faff
faff
/fæf/
verb
1.
(Brit, informal) ( intransitive) often foll by about. to dither or fuss
2.
A group or collection of bikepackers
- whitestone
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Hmm, "a faff of bikepackers" is ideal for a group standing around. "Stench" is a good one, even if it has a hint of nastiness, for the cafe. "A dither of bikepackers" for the group on the move?
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An anomalous.
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A deviation of bikepackers.
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When everyone who is going to has had an input can we have a vote please?
- voodoo_simon
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A r@ph@ of ........
edit oops forgot about the swear filter. I though that to show that satire isn't dead turning the 'r' word to its antithesis using would work but it doesn't.
So re post as a stealth of bikepackers.
edit oops forgot about the swear filter. I though that to show that satire isn't dead turning the 'r' word to its antithesis using would work but it doesn't.
So re post as a stealth of bikepackers.
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- ZeroDarkBivi
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Troop. Although chimps are probably better organised!
Where do these groups exist, apart from cafe/pub stops on ‘event’ rides?
Where do these groups exist, apart from cafe/pub stops on ‘event’ rides?
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a waft
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I know of a couple of small towns that see ad hoc groups of bikepackers in the summer. Fort William, Fort Augustus and Aviemore would be three examples off the top of my head. A couple of years ago I might stop for a chat and work out whether I knew (of) them on t'internet. Now they're so common I rarely do.ZeroDarkBivi wrote:Troop. Although chimps are probably better organised!
Where do these groups exist, apart from cafe/pub stops on ‘event’ rides?
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What sort of bikepackers? The dipped in glue and rolled around millets kind, or the TLS ascetic kind? Assuming the latter...
I like deviation as a term (and lifestyle), but nice alternatives might be
a discrepancy of.....
or even
A hereticism of...... which fits nicely with the overtones of ascetisism.
I like deviation as a term (and lifestyle), but nice alternatives might be
a discrepancy of.....
or even
A hereticism of...... which fits nicely with the overtones of ascetisism.
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A Disaster of bikepackers or a Pennant of bikepackers?
- TheBrownDog
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A conviviality of bikepackers
....The dipped in glue and rolled around millets kind,
I'm just going outside ...
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A "bimble" of bikepackers?
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^^ ^^Scud wrote:A "bimble" of bikepackers?
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I'm going against the grain here:
A race of bikepackers
A boner of bikepackers
An adventure of bikepackers
Or maybe we don't need a name, the smell says it all?
A race of bikepackers
A boner of bikepackers
An adventure of bikepackers
Or maybe we don't need a name, the smell says it all?
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Just to annoy Stu - A microcosm of (micro-adventuring) bikepackers.
The boringly obvious pack of packers.
Bearing in mind that bikepackers are often solitary creatures, an isolation of bikepackers.
And in our case, being bearboners, a sleuth of bearbones bikepackers.
The boringly obvious pack of packers.
Bearing in mind that bikepackers are often solitary creatures, an isolation of bikepackers.
And in our case, being bearboners, a sleuth of bearbones bikepackers.
We go out into the hills to lose ourselves, not to get lost. You are only lost if you need to be somewhere else and if you really need to be somewhere else then you're probably in the wrong place to begin with.
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I bought Beth one of these t-shirts. You’d be amazed how many people don’t get it